Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1985)

This is a small, humorous movie in some ways, but it has a huge heart. What a nice experience.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

This movie tries so hard to be funny, yet it falls flat every time. Just another example of recycled ideas repackaged with women in an attempt to appeal to a certain audience.

Great movie. Not sure what people expected but I found it highly entertaining.

(Flash Review)Impetus for viewing: Netflix was going to remove it from streaming soon. So I checked this one off my pure 80's list to reduce ridicule for having not yet seen it. Hahaha Awash in happy, bold and garish 80's styles, this is a movie about a dance competition. Parker's character is a dynamite dancer and against her father's wishes and knowledge enters a partner dance competition with a dude who wears a leather jackets and rides a motorcycle. Cue teenage rebellion plot line as well as fake forced emotional scenes. I was surprised the music wasn't better, no big hits and with this title for the movie, didn't even use Cindy Lauper's (sp) original song version. She wouldn't allow it. Ha. The cinematography is boring and isn't used to accentuate any scenes. It was strange to see Helen Hunt as a giddy teenager since she now plays very reserved characters.

Janey is new in town, and soon meets Lynne, who shares her passion for dancing in general, and "Dance TV" in particular. When a competition is announced to find a new Dance TV regular couple, Janey and Lynne are determined to audition. The only problem is that Janey's father doesn't approve of that kind of thing.This is just 1980s cheese at its finest. There is very little plot, nothing unexpected and it could probably have been written over a weekend. It probably was. The only thing about it that really makes it worth watching is that the stars have gone on to bigger and better careers. We even have a young Shannon Doherty.If nothing else, we learn that Sarah Jessica Parker has always been a hideous creature and how she ever got hired on a movie -- or many -- or a TV show is mystery. And it calls into question Matthew Broderick's good sense.

Excruciating teen fracas, taking its title from a hit '80s song by Cyndi Lauper, is one that hopes to straddle the line between cartoonish tomfoolery and semi-realistic teen-rebellion nonsense. Sarah Jessica Parker plays a religious school student who defies her strict father and auditions for a popular dance TV show. Cheapjack production, slathered in day-glo colors, does manage to create nice buddy chemistry between Parker and 'bad girl' Helen Hunt, but the outré attempts at slapstick laughs are groaning and simplistic. If the film were an all-out spoof of the MTV-era, it may have worked; unfortunately, the military dad stuff keeps butting in, as if the filmmakers had no idea which tone to aim for. Lots of youthful energy, but hardly memorable. *1/2 from ****

i love this movie so much! but i can't seem to find the soundtrack anywhere... i have tried downloading but the songs are kind of rare and i can't find the right versions I've tried best buy and target but this movie is from 1985 and the songs on it aren't very well known like some other movies. if you know where i could find this soundtrack id really appreciate it...i love this movie & the dancing is awesomeeeeee. wow this ones a classic...--i hate him --whats to hate? he's a boy and he's alive --he's just UGH! UGH! you know? --i like those qualities in a man. is he going to call you tonight? --(janie smiles) yeah i think!